Preterm Contractions 20 weeks

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Amorga30 wrote:

Hey all!

I started having preterm contractions over the weekend (a contraction every minute lasting about 40 seconds) thankfully my cervix is still 3.7 and baby and fluid has been strong! Just curious if anyone has had a similar situation and what the rest of their pregnancy looked like!

I was given a shot to slow them and now am on an ibeprofun regimen to calm my uterus (truly not happy about either) but drinking tons and tons of fluids and resting as much as possible.

I had them a few times in my first pregnancy starting at 16 weeks. Eventually I was hospitalised for 3 days at 33 weeks to stop it. My son was finally born at 37+6! It was very stressful always thinking it could happen any moment but in the end it was all fine.

Just curious, what did your contractions feel like? Reason I ask is because at my appt last Friday (I was 19w 6d), the nurse asked if I had experienced any contractions. And I said I’ve never had contractions so I don’t know what they’ll feel like lol.

so I didn’t know either! They started Thursday night and I was like oh I think the baby is moving his butt. Lol I had just had my anatomy scan that day and knew my cervix were great and baby was great. So I kind of brushed it off. Literally same as a Braxton Hicks though my uterus would bulge and get really tight! They were consistent one about every 10 minutes timed like clock work which I think is really the cause for concern. By Saturday morning I knew they were happening more often and it wasn’t just baby moving. They weren’t/aren’t painful which is another good thing! No leaking/bleeding etc. I have half a uterus (birth defect) so I think it’s just irritable and the long anatomy scan being. Poked and prodded kind of irritated it more.. they have calmed a bit but still come in waves of frequency! Just know if you feel a hardening/tightening happening on a consistent basis it’s likely worth a call especially if you have any cramping/leaking or if they’re painful. I knew I wasn’t in labor because there wasn’t pain with it! But with them happening so regularly they are still considered preterm contractions.. Braxton Hicks are at random

Yes I started having Braxton Hicks around 3pm on Monday. The minute I finished dinner I had a big contraction. Had to go lay down they were painful where I started to tear up and one after the other. I just rested and drank lots of water. I was at my parents for Easter dinner at the time and my dads a doctor so I asked him what I should do. He just said test and put your feet up. I had been cleaning and running around all day so I’m sure it was from that. My last pregnancy I had prodromal labour starting at 36 weeks. It was awful. I’d go in to the hospital and they’d give me a morphing shot and hook me up and say there real contractions and I was going to have the baby but then it would stop. I have read once u have prodromal labour your more likely to have it again and earlier. Super scary to start getting it at 22weeks. Just need to make sure I rest more but at the end of the day there’s not much u can do to stop it unfortunately.

yes that’s my exact fear was just that it’s started so soon! I knew with my birth condition having half a uterus it’d pose some complications but darn it I wish it would have waited to start until like week 30 not week 20!

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